through planes no one is solving the problems for the united states. you talk about the fear thing. the reason why they are sequester, the reason we have sequester is back in august of 2011 we were approaching the debt ceiling and cut a deal that there would be spending cuts by a super committee at the end of november because they hadn t done their job. they hasn t done a budget. and the super committee didn t do its job and then from december or january, february, nobody bothered to do anything. waited for the sequester cuts to go into effect. now they re all blaming sequester but they re the reason for the sequester in the beginning. you re absolutely right and if you look at what happened with federal government spending, it s a minuscule deduction or lessening of federal government spending from about 3.45 trillion to 3.44 trillion. so it s not a lot that we have seen. and really when you understand the baseline budget system that they use over here on capitol hill, you r
it didn t pass didn t mash up to the other acts presented. she wasn t a good performer with this. how long how often have we seen something like this. it s thought a substitute for skill. it s pretty ugly but curious. does this help her career? is that where we ve come to? ultimately i actually sort of in a sick, twisted way, does it help it? i think perhaps in a way, maybe it does because it puts her name up there. all publicity is good publicity. these getting a ton of it today and certainly getting more tomorrow but in the long run though it seems like it s a flash in the pan. you have to have some substance to back this up. anybody can do shock and shock is really boring and tiring after a while and you have to follow it up with something a little bit more substantive and she doesn t have it. she doesn t have a great singing voice. she s a pretty girl but that s kind of where we are with this. people will remember it. they ll remember it. and i m sure a lot of people
he won t get united nations approval which is the obama administration s second choice because russia and china will veto so now we re down to an appeal to morality. 100,000 people have been killed in syria. also s say 2,000 were killed by chemical weapons. what is it that makes it 50 times more immoral to use chemical weapons that s finally got the obama administration to move? let me look time line, pulled up. may 19, 2011, president obama said the syrian government started shooting its own demonstration and have inspectors have access to the city and u.n. inspectors then july, may 19th, he said, we stepped up our sanctions on syrian regime. that s 2011. july 2011, we keep the pressure up to see if we can bring real change in syria. that didn t happen. january 24, 2012, state of the union speech he says i have no doubt they will discover the force of change can t be reversed and human dignity can t be defied. february 26th he said once again that the noose is tightening around as
maintaining the current rates for people below the top brackets and let those top brackets stay up. it will therefore be described as a tax cut for everybody on the lower brackets and work out something else on the spending side because neither one of the parties actually wants to see these giant cuts in defense and a lot of the other cuts that happen across the board. remember, the sequester was supposed to be the hammer on congress, if memory serves, in case the super committee didn t do what it was supposed to do. and so since the super committee proved to be not so super, that s why everyone is freaked out about the sequester cuts that are about to happen. meanwhile, patty murray has been signaling, not signaling, saying flat out, that she wants to go over the fast kill cliff and she wants to take it to the republicans. and i think now that the president has won re-election and that he already has the experience of the debt ceiling fight from last year under his belt, he knows ho
going to be a very important policy to mention going forward. a lot of work has already been done. as you bring up simpson-bowles, is there a possibility because the super committee didn t have the majority to move it forward, now that the president is reelected and it s affirmed, is there a possibility to revive that? i never quite understood. it s difficult to get simpson-bowles into specific legislative language. simpson-bowles is not as specific as people think it is. there s an outside chance that republicans and democrats look at this. they re just exhausted and disgusted by the idea of going through it again, and they kind of say, ugh, i don t like everything in here, but let s do this, pass it, and get it done. first they need to get simpson-bowles into real legislative action, which is what the gang of eight is working on. today storm worried people along the east coast digging out from a nor easter just ten days after hurricane sandy. the storm s gusting winds, the rain